Art Quote by John Simon

Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated…

— Forrest Gander

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or…

— Campbell McGrath

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

— Louis Dudek

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

— Nicholson Baker

“Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've…

— Laurie Frankel

poems are small moments of enlightenment

— Natalie Goldberg

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

— Isaac Rosenberg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

— Carl Sandburg